In December of 2005 the state of Texas issued a law that all city mandated franchise agreements would now be handled by the state of Texas. This meant that any previous contract agreements by city’s or other municipalities can no longer be made after January 1st 2006. In most of these agreements, if not all agreements had the PEG channels (Public, Educational, & Government channels) in them, and San Antonio was one of them. What is mentioned is that when this law was passed, San Antonio and the contract agreement by Time Warner Cable was going to end by December 2005 and the city would no longer have any PEG channels unless they took it upon themselves to provide the channels, which at the time they did not have any funding or resources to do so. So on January 1st 2006, the Public Access channel went “black” for several months, leading people to think the channel was gone indefinitely.
However the channel did come back, however the way it is today is the same as it was when the city took over the job of Public Access with no real future or plans to improve it.
